Authors:Braun, Eric,
Publisher: Capstone Press
Keywords: biographies, first, banneker, benjamin
Number of Pages: 24
Published: 2005-09-01
List price: $17.26
ISBN-10: 0736842330
ISBN-13: 9780736842334

Text and photographs introduce the life of Benjamin Banneker, an astronomer and mathematician, who wrote alamancs and helped survey the land for the U.S. captial.

Author: Rose Blue
Publisher: Millbrook Press
Keywords: mathematicia, banneker, bejamin
Number of Pages: 48
Published: 2001-09-01
List price: $23.90
ISBN-10: 0761318054
ISBN-13: 9780761318057

Author: Ginger Wadsworth
Publisher: Carolrhoda Books
Keywords: scientist, pioneering, banneker, benjamin
Number of Pages: 47
Published: 2003-02
List price: $6.95
ISBN-10: 0876141041
ISBN-13: 9780876141045

THIS EDITION IS INTENDED FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. In a time when most African Americans were slaves, Banneker lived a life of freedom and became known as America’s first African American man of science. Through his accomplishments, he helped

Author: Andrea Davis Pinkney
Publisher: Sandpiper
Keywords: banneker, benjamin
Number of Pages: 32
Published: 1998-09-01
List price: $7.00
ISBN-10: 0152018921
ISBN-13: 9780152018924

Benjamin Banneker was born free when most blacks in this country were still enslaved. But it troubled him that not all blacks were free. An accomplished astronomer and mathematician, he decided to take a stand against slavery by writing to then-Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson. This is the story of their extraordinary correspondence.

Authors:Lassieur, Allison,
Publisher: Capstone Press
Keywords: biographies, african, americans, finders, fact, banneker, astronomer, mathematician, benjamin
Number of Pages: 32
Published: 2006-01-01
List price: $23.93
ISBN-10: 0736854320
ISBN-13: 9780736854320

Provides an introduction to the life and biography of Benjamin Banneker, the African American astronomer and mathematician who helped survey Washington, D.C., and who wrote several successful almanacs.

Authors:Bonnie Hinman, Arthur Meier Schlesinger, Arthur Meie
Publisher: Chelsea House Publications
Keywords: colonial, leaders, astronomer, mathematician, banneker, american, benjamin
Number of Pages: 79
Published: 2000-01
List price: $8.95
ISBN-10: 0791056910
ISBN-13: 9780791056912

Authors:Charles Cerami, Charles A. Cerami, Robert M. Silvers
Publisher: Wiley
Keywords: publisher, patriot, astronomer, surveyor, banneker, benjamin
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2002-01-04
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 0471387525
ISBN-13: 9780471387527

Advance praise from Kweisi Mfume, President and CEO, NAACP "Herein breathes the universal genius Benjamin Banneker — mathematician, astronomer, diarist, and sage. Biographer Charles Cerami mines the available data, eschews the apocryphal, and renders his subject human. Captured completely is the flowering genius of a largely home-schooled boy wonder, exhibiting mathematical wizardry while devouring the Bible, Plato, Epictetus, and virtually every other extant tome. The fabled memory that could have reproduced LEnfants plan for the entire District of Columbia becomes palpable and r